THOMAS JOHNES, ESQ.
Memoirs of the life of Sir John Froissart
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THE FIRST VOLUME.
THIS oonfifts of 361 velum leaves. The firft k blank- Then follow* the contents of all the 306 chapters on 27 full pages of 14 leaves: then? two blank ones, and the text on S43 leaves. Finally, a blank leaf.
The portions of the text, each of which is furaifticd with a catchword,, are the following: 22 quaternions (176), one tercet (6), three quaternions-' (24), one couplet (4), twelve .quaternions (96), one quinterniori-(io); three quaternions (24), and three leaves. Total, 343 leaves"; and this diverfity of the portions, all of which, efpccially the tercet, couplet and quinteraionr 1 have accurately compared with Sauvagefs edition, is incredibly complete.
In this volume are 18 large and 99 fmaller pictures, with which fix; of the more beautiful ones in the remaining three volumes may be compared. 1 have marked them all, according to the numbers of the leaves and of the- % chapters of all the four volumes, in a lift, which 1 have laid by for future-obfervation.
The commencement of the whole manufcript has already been noticidr there is even a good large piéture under the left hand column, with?
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